Jack Nicklaus Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Jack Nicklaus Quotes and Sayings
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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Golf is a better game played downhill.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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The game is meant to be fun.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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